A B.C. Supreme Court judge dropped drug charges against slain gangster Sukh Dhak Monday – a week after he and his bodyguard were gunned down in Burnaby.
Justice Gail Dickson granted the “abatement” or suspension of the case against Dhak, a 28-year-old who had been targeted for more than a year before he was killed along with Thomas Mantel.
Dickson told Dhak’s lawyer Emil Doricic that he was no longer required.
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Controversial B.C. skipper John Stirling will get one more shot at avoiding a lengthy prison term in the U.S. Despite being convicted last month by a jury of transporting 400 kilos of cocaine on the open seas, he has won a new trial in Miami.
A judge ruled that Stirling’s defence was at a big disadvantage when the prosecutor disclosed incriminating Skype conversation between Stirling and a co-accused on the last day of trial.
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Controversial B.C. skipper John Philip Stirling is fighting the efforts of U.S. authorites to prosecute him in Florida.
Stirling, who was caught on his sailboat with 380 kilograms of cocaine last October, says the U.S. Coast Guard had no jurisdiction to take him and his friends into custody off the coast of Colombia.
And his lawyer in Miami is trying to get the case tossed.
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As Real Scoop readers told me, controversial B.C. skipper John “Phil” Stirling was actually trying to sell the sailboat Atlantis V at the time he was arrested last month.
I got a hold of the yacht broker over the weekend and he clearly had no idea that Stirling was in hot water so to speak.
The broker told me he had never met Stirling and only dealt with him over the phone. He pulled the ... Read More …

Weeks before skipper/cocaine trafficker John Stirling was caught on the high seas north of Colombia, news of his plan were spelled out in Kamloops court documents as part of a suit and counter-suit between him and his Chase, B.C. neighbours.
The documents describe a bizarre feud between Stirling and his wife Marlene and their former friends – Shawn Martin and his mother Myrna Beckman.
Martin and Beckman gave several loans to the Stirlings over four ... Read More …